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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,763 posts.
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to D3.js
The landscape for learning d3 is rich, vast and sometimes perilous. You may be intimidated by the long list of functions in d3’s API…
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Microsoft Issues WanaCrypt Patch for Windows 8, XP
Microsoft Corp. today took the unusual step of issuing security updates to address flaws in older, unsupported versions of Windows — including Windows XP and Windows 8 . The move is a bid to slow the spread of the WanaCrypt ransomware strain that infected tens of thousands of Windows computers virtually overnight this…
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Approximating sin(x) to 5 ULP with Chebyshev polynomials
Weblog/homepage for a developer/engineer/artist. DIY projects, opinions and code.
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Cisco's Talos team analysis of WannaCry worm
By Martin Lee, Warren Mercer, Paul Rascagneres, and Craig Williams. Executive Summary A major ransomware attack has affected many organizations across the world reportedly including Telefonica in Spain, the National Health Service in the UK, and FedEx in the US. The malware responsible for this attack is a ransomware…
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Patching Is Hard
There are many news reports of a ransomware worm . Much of the National Health Service in the UK has been hit; so has FedEx . The patch for the flaw exploited by this malware has been out for a while, but many companies haven’t installed it. Naturally, this has prompted a lot of victim-blaming: they should have…
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VME Broken on AMD Ryzen
That’s VME as in Virtual-8086 Mode Enhancements, introduced in the Intel Pentium Processor, and initially documented in the infamous NDA-only Appendix H.
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Treble: A modular base for Android
News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.
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A Lap Around Python in Visual Studio 2017
We’re delighted to announce that our rich Python toolchain is fully available in Visual Studio 2017. Installation of Python tools, interpreters, runtimes,
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How Trello is different
Just a few months ago, we launched Trello, a super simple, web-based team coordination system. The feedback has been overwhelmingly positive and adoption has been very strong, even in its early, 1.…
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Understanding deep learning requires re-thinking generalization
Understanding deep learning requires re-thinking generalization Zhang et al., ICLR’17 This paper has a wonderful combination of properties: the results are easy to understand, somewhat surpri…
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Programmers Should Automate More
Last week, I created a small script to aid my workflow which left me wondering why I didn't make it earlier. It adds an option in [Finder](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finder_\(software\))'s context menu to start a static web server in any folder which makes it easier to preview static websites. Technically, it's…
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When Bash scripts bite
There are abundant resources online trying to scare programmers away from using shell scripts. Most of them, if anything, succeed in convincing the reader to...
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Silicon Valley: A Reality Check
The nation has spoken: weird pointless $400 wi-fi enabled juicer company Juicero is the perfect symbol of Silicon Valley. So says the Washington Post: Juicero Shows What’s Wrong With Silicon …
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Caffe2 adds 16 bit floating point training support on the NVIDIA Volta platform
After open sourcing Caffe2 at F8 last month, today we are are excited to share our recent work on low precision 16 bit floating point (FP16) training in collaboration with NVIDIA.
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New Distros Coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store
We're REALLY excited about this announcement and think many of you will be too ;) On May 11th 2017, during Microsoft's Build conference keynote, Terry
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Neural Network-Generated Illustrations in Allo
Posted by Jennifer Daniel, Expressions Creative Director, Allo Taking, sharing, and viewing selfies has become a daily habit for many — the car sel...
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Standing Up to a Dangerous New Breed of Patent Troll
On March 20th, Cloudflare received our first patent infringement claim: Blackbird Tech LLC v. Cloudflare, Inc. Today we’re filing our Answer to that claim in a federal court in Delaware.
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How Cloudflare analyzes 1M DNS queries per second
On Friday, we announced DNS analytics for all Cloudflare customers. Because of our scale –– by the time you’ve finished reading this, Cloudflare DNS will have handled millions of DNS queries –– we had to be creative in our implementation.
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Keylogger in Hewlett-Packard Audio Driver
Security reviews of modern Windows Active Domain infrastructures are – from our point of view – quite sobering. Therefore, we often look left and right, when, for example, examining the hardening of protection mechanisms of a workstation. Here, we often find all sorts of dangerous and ill-conceived stuff. We want to…